A bipartisan group of senators is asking the Government Accountability Office to examine the Justice Department’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein amid concerns the department has not released all the documents required by law. President Donald Trump in November signed a nearly unanimously passed law mandating the Justice Department make public records related to the late convicted sex offender with narrow restrictions. The department released millions of pages of documents, but Democrats and some Republicans in Congress have raised concerns about how faithfully it complied with the law. Bondi has defended the department’s compliance with the law. A dozen senators — including Merkley, Murkowski and Durbin — wrote in December to Don Berthiaume, the Justice Department’s acting inspector general, to ask him to audit the department’s compliance with the law.

Source: Washington Post March 12, 2026 19:42 UTC